Dell Inspiron 8600

It’s funny; back in the old days of the Oddball Update, when I would make entries using Microsoft Word (or, if you go back far enough, even the old Windows 3.1 accessory called “Write”), I would always lapse into fits of tech speak, [...]

Today sure started off weird. I normally get up at 7:00 with the intention of getting to work by 8:30. This morning, however, I find myself woken up by my wife instead of the usual alarm, who then points at the clock. The clock says 8:06.
“That’s mighty strange,” I pontificate in a [...]

After an extended hiatus (I admit I haven’t been thinking much about the tired laments of boring, whiny people lately), I found a real gem in today’s paper.

It saddens me that you chose a photo of two graduates kissing as your selection for the front page of Saturday’s paper. Where were the pictures of hats [...]

Deimos and Callisto

Question: What do you do when your workplace decides it wants to give away, free of charge, half a dozen old, OLD computers that it no longer needs? Answer: If you’re me, you take as many as you can get!
A while back, [...]

Folks, I am now about to take you on a ride into the dark and dingy world of weblogging. For the next few minutes, the Oddball Update will descend into that insipid realm of self-serving content spewage that means absolutely nothing to anybody but the author. It’s a 99.9% waste of the Internet, [...]

The local UPN affiliate in my area sucks donkey gonads. This isn’t anything particularly new, since they’ve always really blown (I mean, when your call letters are “WEVU” and you make jokes in your bumpers like “We View TV!”, you have to be pretty far down on the totem pole of TV station professionalism). [...]

You guys are gonna like this one!

I just got this in the mail today! Another member of the KITT replica community produced a run of about 100 of these incredibly accurate license plate replicas, so I decided to grab one—even though this is the sort of “finishing touch” accessory usually reserved for once you [...]

Last night I began my latest “gee, that sounds like fun” project: Slap together a DOS gaming box and get it loaded up with every classic game from my past, from Wolfenstein to Doom, Duke3D to System Shock, Quarantine to Heretic. The underlying reason for my doing this is so that I can play [...]

“Confirmed!” It looks like my wife and I will be heading back to Thailand this year! It’s been since Christmas of 1999 that either of us were there, and we’re both looking forward to seeing friends and family, eating authentic Thai food and checking out all the sights. At first we weren’t [...]

Ever wonder what people will say about you after you’re dead and buried? “Can’t say as I have,” you might reply absent-mindedly. Ordinarily I would answer in kind, but tonight I got a taste of that strange feeling—knowing what people might be saying about oneself posthumously. It’s left a bit of an [...]